My thoughts on ship sizes.

[Elowan]

Originally posted by jimbob:
By about the midpoint of the game I'm using the smaller ships mainly in special roles. Mine sweeper, sneaky mine layer, scout, PD ships occasionally (especially if they're older ships from the beginning of the game and have a lot of experience... keep em), rapid-deployment repair & supply ships, etc.

Which then begs the question - are these original designs or refits into that new role? And a follow-up: does a ship lose experience on a refit?

BTW - I've heard of guys using so-called 'training ships' to train up the crew. I don't see anywhere wherein one can transfer a crew. It seems the concept would only work if you had a neural net installed in each ship - impractical for the smaller hulls. Either that - or these are basic hulls fitted with just enough stuff to exceed 50% and then get retro-fitted. Hence the second part of the question above. Is that a practical idea?

[ August 10, 2002, 16:54: Message edited by: Elowan ]